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Lead Analyst
Job Locations: Kenya, Tanzania, Nigeria
About the role:
The Data Intelligence (DI) team is seeking a Lead Analyst with expertise in strategic advanced analytics and business storytelling, to play a pivotal role in transforming data into actionable business insights. The successful candidate will deeply understand business problem statements, leverage data analytics techniques, and effectively communicate complex analyses to both technical and non-technical stakeholders. This role requires a ability to bridge the gap between business strategy, and technology.
About the role:
The Data Intelligence (DI) team is seeking a Lead Analyst with expertise in strategic advanced analytics and business storytelling, to play a pivotal role in transforming data into actionable business insights. The successful candidate will deeply understand business problem statements, leverage data analytics techniques, and effectively communicate complex analyses to both technical and non-technical stakeholders. This role requires a ability to bridge the gap between business strategy, and technology.
What you will be expected to do
- Collaborate with senior leaders to identify strategic opportunities and guide data-driven decision-making.
- Develop and execute advanced solutions and statistical methods, to solve complex business problems.
- Apply A/B testing, regression methods, hypothesis testing, and other statistical methodologies to validate business strategies.
- Design and develop impactful dashboards and reports using tools like Tableau, Looker, or Power BI.
- Serve as a trusted advisor by applying a deep understanding of business operations to recommend strategies that drive growth, operational improvements, and collaboration.
- Drive the development and monitoring of key performance indicators (KPIs) and dashboards, ensuring alignment with business objectives.
- Leverage an understanding of business processes to provide recommendations on optimizing operations and improving outcomes.
- Collaborate with engineering teams to design and optimize data pipelines and workflows.
- Work on projects to completion which will involve managing efforts across and collaborating with the team and mentoring team members and reviewing their work.
You might be a strong candidate if you have/are
- A bachelor’s or master’s degree in data science, business analytics, computer science, or a related quantitative field.
- 6+ years of experience in business intelligence, or a similar role, with a proven track record of driving business outcomes through data insights.
- Proficiency in SQL and Python for data analysis and modeling.
- Prior experience in project management, with experience working on complex projects across multiple teams and delivering results on time and within scope.
- Expertise in data visualization tools like Tableau, Looker, or Power BI to create compelling, actionable insights.
- A business mindset with the ability to understand and address cross-functional problem statements and strategic opportunities.
- Good statistical understanding and the ability to apply statistical methods to solve business problems and to turn insights into impactful actions.
- Storytelling and communication skills, with a demonstrated ability to convey insights to both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure) is a plus but not required.
- Strategic and results-driven, with the ability to balance big-picture thinking with attention to detail.
- Proactive and collaborative with good interpersonal and stakeholder management skills.
- Adaptable and eager to learn, staying ahead of trends in business strategy, analytics, and visualization tools.
- A problem solver who thrives on turning insights into impactful actions.
What Sun King offers
- Professional growth in a dynamic, rapidly expanding, high-social-impact industry
- An open-minded, collaborative culture made up of enthusiastic colleagues who are driven by the challenge of innovation towards profound impact on people and the planet.
- A truly multicultural experience: you will have the chance to work with and learn from people from different geographies, nationalities, and backgrounds.
- Structured, tailored learning and development programs that help you become a better leader, manager, and professional through the Sun Center for Leadership.
About Sun King
Sun King is the world’s leading off-grid solar energy company, combining cutting-edge product design, fintech, and field operations to deliver energy access for the 1.8 billion people who live without an affordable and reliable electric-grid connection. Sun King has connected more than 20 million homes to solar power across Africa and Asia, adding over 200,000 homes each month.
Sun King makes solar products affordable to low-income households and businesses via ‘pay-as-you-go’ purchase financing. Sun King installs solar after customers pay a small deposit. Customers then make small, manageable payments of as little as US $0.11 a day via mobile money or cash.
Instead of paying for expensive, polluting, and health-damaging kerosene for lighting or diesel for power, customers unlock savings through accessing solar power and after one to two years of payments, customers own their solar equipment outright. To date, our Sun King solar products have saved customers more than $4 billion cumulatively.
Sun King collects payments digitally through mobile money systems and its 28,000 field agents — over 650,000 payments each day. Embedded electronics inside each Sun King device regulate usage based on payments, similar to the operation of a pre-paid mobile or electricity meter.
Sun King collects payments digitally through mobile money systems and its 28,000 field agents — over 650,000 payments each day. Embedded electronics inside each Sun King device regulate usage based on payments, similar to the operation of a pre-paid mobile or electricity meter.
From cost-effective solar systems that provide home lighting and phone charging to robust solar inverters that can power high-energy appliances such as laptops, computers, refrigerators, and more, effectively acting as a full stand-in for grid power, Sun King’s products cater to a wide range of income segments and energy needs. Leveraging its proven distribution network and brand, Sun King is expanding its range of products and services to encompass clean cooking, electric mobility, entertainment, and more, aiming to address the needs of our underserved customers.
Sun King employs 2,800 full-time staff in 12 countries, with specialties spanning product design, data science, logistics, customer service, sales, software, operations, and more — all with a passion to serve off-grid families.
Sun King is committed to gender diversity in the workplace. Women represent 44% of Sun King’s workforce.